Awards and Honors
Recently honored with grants from Creative Capital and the National Endowment for the Arts, she is also the recipient of a Siemens International Media Arts Award, the Flintridge Foundation Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, Prix Ars Electronica, the Alfred P Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize, and the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement in Digital Art from the Association for Computer Graphic's Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques (ACM SIGGRAPH). In 2004, Stanford University Libraries acquired Hershman Leeson's working archive.
Lynn Hershman Leeson was the recipient of a 2009 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
In 2010 Hershman Leeson received the d.velop digital art award.
Hershman Leeson is Chair of the Film Department at the San Francisco Art Institute, Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis and an A D White Professor at Large at Cornell University.
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